The big day has arrived! Today is a memorable day inthe Dowbrigade household, and in the evolution of the Dowbrigade itself. At 12:30 pm, in Faneuil Hall, the Revolutionary marketplace in downtown Boston, the lovely Norma Yvonne will be sworn in as an American citizen. And then, afterwards, we will come home and begin [...]
In typical blind-pig fashion, the Dowbrigade did not manage to find this soiree, even after being informed by the ultimate insider, the inestimable adamg of Universal Hub fame, that the secret location was "327 Summer Street – Second Floor – South Boston".
Is anybody who was there awake yet? We would love to post some [...]
When they found her last week, her father said, she was "bare-bones skinny" and shaking, scuttling like a monkey along the ground to snatch up grains of rice, her eyes "red like tigers’ eyes". So when the first pictures of Rochom P’ngieng, the woman supposedly lost in the jungle for 18 years, emerged yesterday showing [...]
Comment Spam update: Thus far today we have been the victim of comment spam from the following sources, in chronological order: shuttle xpc sk21g, cardiomax 700e, crystal ball pendant, cheap car audio systems, radiant heater, 14k gold charm bracelet, camaro guage, and facelift cream. 24 robot-generated comments in all. And every single one is commenting [...]
A Scotsman is planning to become the first person to windsurf across the Atlantic – and then turn back and do it again.
Leven Brown, aka El Loco, would have to balance on the 20ft surfboard for around five months as he gets blown from the Canary Islands to Antigua, without any support vessel.
He would [...]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a reposting of an older story which has been innundated with comment spam. For more on this, see below…
F.K. in Conway NH has an interesting question for Dr. Knowledge in today’s Boston Globe. He writes, “Humans can’t fall from much more than one body height without risk of serious injury. How [...]
Taking advantage of our recent hiatus from blogging, we have had occasion to review what we were putting into our blog, and what our readers were getting out of it. We came to the conclusion that it may be time for a major revision in the look and feel of the Dowbrigade News. [...]
Taking advantage of our recent hiatus from blogging, we had occasion to review what we were putting into our blog, and what our readers were getting out of it. We came to the conclusion that it may be time for a major revision in the look and feel of the Dowbrigade News. [...]
Taking advantage of our recent hiatus from blogging, we had occasion to review what we were putting into our blog, and what our readers were getting out of it. We came to the conclusion that it may be time for a major revision in the look and feel of the Dowbrigade News. [...]
It’s finally over, the semester that wouldn’t end. It started, if memory serves, on May 29, with a class of Business Professionals meeting in a weird wired classroom near the Business School, and ended this afternoon with a farewell lunch in a Thai joint a half-mile down Comm Ave.
Over the intervening 28 weeks, motivated [...]
The number of new foreign students coming to the United States grew this school year, after several years of weakness that followed the terrorist attacks of 2001, according to a survey to be released today by the Institute of International Education.
The institute, in a [...]